UNUSUAL | Ron Kaplan, famous for his book “501 books that the true baseball fan should read before they die” and Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf blog, took a trip to Paris to visit the premises of the Fédération Française de Baseball and Softball!

Hmm, have to have a chat with those folks at Bing.

The post already has more than a dozen “likes” from local readers.

I had been informed by the Federation that there were no French-language baseball books in France. Peut-etre this will change soon?

NEW!
Free 501 checklist available (Excel/spreadhseet format). Makes it fun to check off which books you've read and handy to bring to the bookstore or library to get what you still want to read. Send your request via email to ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf (@)gmail(dot)com.

Ron by Roth

In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I host another blog. Busy, busy, busy.

I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.